Flamenco as we know it was “born” in Spain in the mid-19th century. But for centuries before that, Roma (Gitanos, Gypsies) had been living in Spanish cities, often rubbing shoulders with the descendants of Africans (Moors), who had been there as both citizens and slaves going back to Medieval times and earlier. This overlooked pre-history of flamenco is explored in Miguel Angel Rosales’s groundbreaking film Gurumbé. In this program, we meet Rosales and learn to hear flamenco in a new way. We also meet maverick flamenco artist Raul Rodriguez, inventor and master of the tres flamenco. Rodriquez’s solo concert, sampled in this program, is a tour de force and an anthropology master class, all in one. Produced by Banning Eyre.

APWW #792
Originally broadcast in 2018

The Hidden Blackness Of Flamenco

On this VERY special episode, Mr. OK Jazz & DJ Otsuka interview jazz legend Billy Harper! ! Billy spoke from his home in NYC via Zoom, on a whole range of subjects including: 
The Cookers band, growing up in Texas, spiritual music, recording for Japanese labels, his version of Japanese folk tune 'Soran Bushi', rare only in Japan albums, a special message from DJ Otsuka to Billy and more! 
Featured Music:
00:00 - 03:05 / The Cookers - 'Somalia'
08:16 - 10:40 / 'Thine Is The Glory'
19:48 - 21:57 / 'Soran Bushi, B.H.'
30:45 -43:47 / 'Croquet Ballet'

OK Jazz Episode #145 - Interview with Billy Harper

Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention with special guest Rahsaan Roland Kirk at The Boston Globe Jazz Festival January 31, 1969.  Recorded by yours truly on a portable Sony reel-to-reel that I smuggled into the event.

Frank Zappa & The Mothers with Rahsaan Roland Kirk at The Boston Globe Jazz Festival 1-31-69

Jam session Sunday, January 15th, 2023 with SoSaLa on tenor sax and Chris Coluzzi on drums at the Music Building in New York city.
Improvised music.

Jam Session 1 w. Chris Coluzzi

Along with SoSaLa (on soprano sax, vocals, organ and flute) the intriguing line up included myself (on electric guitar / Live Skull / o13 / Spoiler / Int’l Shades / Body), James Lo (on drums / Live Skull / Chavez / Slash Orchestra), Peter Gordan (on tenor sax and Jews harp / Love of Life Orchestra), David Motamed (on electric bass / Das Daman, Cell, The Royal Arctic Institute), Toshi Nakamura (on guitar / SADATO / DATAI 99), who joined Sadato from Tokyo. To top it off the sessions were recorded and mixed by my good friend Martin Bisi at BC Studio in Brooklyn - where Live Skull had worked extensively in the 1980’s.

Hearing the eight tracks for the first time since ’93, knocked me out! I was struck by how much the core sound is indebted to the abstract and chaotic aggression of No Wave - albeit re-interpreted fifteen or so years after the birth of the original movement. I was excited by how energized and focused the improvised playing is; that No Wave is the common thread we each, individually latched onto, as a meeting ground for our diverse musical tastes and backgrounds.  As ringmaster, SoSaLa’s minimal but inventive directions got us going, but the color, texture and the mood of the riffs came from some dark corner in each of our psyches’ where we had stored away the big lessons of No Wave.  - Mark C (LIVE SKULL)

You Want To Be A Sex Star

Brazil 45, 44 – http://www.mrbongo.com/products/jorge-ben-xica-da-silva-myriam-makeba-xica-da-silva

A. Jorge Ben - Xica da Silva / AA. Myriam Makeba - Xica da Silva

Slightly delayed at the pressing plant, apologies.

Buy 7"

Miriam Makeba - Xica Da Silva

Amara Toure -  Lamento Cubano (George T Fresh Up)

پیشکش به خسرو آواز ایران استاد شجریان

download link : 
http://www.mediafire.com/download/w7crr2rpkz487sr/Astrix_%26_Shajarian_-_Remixed_By_Moslem_Rasouli.mp3


musics used in this track : 
mohammadreza shajarian - rahe meykhane 
Astrix - Beyond the senses

Mim Rasouli - Astrix & Shajarian

رویای نهنگ‌های مرده
Soheil Peyghambari: Composer, Bass Clarinet, Clarinet, Soprano 
Saxophone
Mastering: Haami Haghighi
Original Whale photo: Karim Iliya
Cover: Sepehr Samadian

To Album

Le rêve des baleines mortes(From the album"Dysphoria")

Even Angels Take Detours

Shūji Terayama Song

Bamdad Afshar & Otagh Band - Shūji Terayama Song (feat. Kaoru Osanai)

The music project SoSaLa is the brainchild of Iranian-American sax player SoSaLa. Fueled by improvisation, SoSaLa blends original melancholic melodies, and those of his native Iran, with Persian, African and African-American rhythms. Altogether, Sohrab calls his music "nu world trash". His music molded by his international background.

 “…(SoSaLa) blends many elements from different cultures and time frames: funk, rock, jazz & ethnic sounds, electric & acoustic instruments, all swirling around one another in a most mesmerizing way. Sohrab does more spoken word than singing, spewing out his views to bring the world closer together. The festive spirit of the music is often infectious…I can agree with his view of our splintered world by trying to pull different threads together into a hopeful mosaic. Some of the melodies remind me of the Jewish prayers heard in my youth but perhaps these melodies are universal in nature and shared by numerous cultures. You can visit Saadat’s website at www.sohrab.info and learn about the real Iran which you won’t find out about in the controlled news of the world. A toast to a New Iran.” (Bruce Lee Gallanter, NY’s Downtown Music Gallery co-owner, Feb 24, 2012)

You Want To Be A Sex Star

SoSaLa

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